I agree B_B, but if you saw some of the mowers I have restored to their former glory when I first bought them you might say they were only fit for scrap. One of my Southern Cross mowers was just a rusted lump of metal on which nothing worked and it had a broken blade disk and no wheels. The axles were half gone and completely seized. Took me months to restore that mower. But the thing is these mowers are getting hard to come by in any condition. I do notice that mowers I would consider rare out here in the bush are considered more common in Melbourne and Sydney, especially the smaller utility mowers. There are clearly benefits that come with small yards free of rocks and sticks, and better quality sheds. Mowers used on farms seldom survived more than a few years. When I use to go to farm auctions many years ago I often came across old mowers with huge pieces missing out of their bases, almost always the result of someone mowing over a big rock or lump of metal that was hidden in the grass.
